Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. v. Fisher

CHESNUT, District Judge.

This case involves the Federal Copyright Laws (USCA, title 17). The plaintiff, engaged in the business of producing, distributing, exhibiting and licensing, under copyright, the use of motion pictures for performances and exhibitions thereof,' seeks in this case to enjoin the defendant,' the owner of a motion picture theatre in Cumberland, Maryland, known as the Capitol Theatre, from infringing the plaintiff’s copyrighted motion pictures and for discovery with regard to alleged past infringements and for damages.

The motion to dismiss is put chiefly on the following…